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handj but perchance to crack a rimas ageret qumdcquidemin- 
glafs Vial ; fince 1 have feme- terdumhujm generis Mercurium 
times had of this Mercury fo habui adeo jubtilemyUt^adhibente 
fubtil, that when I employed mejingulisvicibmnonrnftdr^ch' 
but a drachm at a time, the heat mam umm. calor me adegerit nt 
made me willing to put ic hafti- froperee mmibm mixturam de- 
ly out of my hand. pnerem. 
1 r. Thefe things being matters ll^cjkm Jint res faCti, tradere 
of faS: 1 Teruple not to deliver mndubitoi^ at value ambigtrem 
them ; buc I would much fcru- exinde determinarey num quiap- 
•p!e to determine thence, whe- plUntur Mercurii Corp Ti m , 
ther thofe that are Mercurii Ccr^ faranturque, ut ja^mt Chymtci^ 
forum, and were made, as Chy- JoU extraBione ex Metallu 
mifts prefjme , by extraflion loffiltbm eorurn qmlibet cale- 
only from Mera^s and Minerals, rem acquirat cum Auro^ quemad- 
will each of them grow hot modum^ ni multum jailor^ Mcr- 
vvith Gold,as,if I muchmiftake curium Antimonialem ^f^/^/V^r^ 
nos, I found Antimonid Mer- comferi. Multoqe minus affir- 
€ury to do. And much lefs would m^rem^ quemvis Mercurium Me- 
I affirm, that every Metaline t^lWcm-i (qumtumcuncjue ad In- 
Mercury (though never fo dif- calefcentiam difpofitum^) quindr 
pofed to Incalefcencc) or even Mercurium Argenti Aurive if- 
that of Silver orGoId itfelf, is Jim eundem ejfe cum eo , qutm 
the fame with rhac which the Scriftores chryfof^i per Mercu- 
Chryfopa?an Writers mean by rium //^^^^ Pbilofophicum ^W^/- 
their Philofofhtck Mercury^ or is ligunt^ vel pr^Jlantia fua ad huf^c 
near fo noble as r his.Nay J would accedere. ^uin imo^ ne quidem 
not fo tiTiich as affirm, that every ajfererem^ quemlibet Mercurium^ 
Mercury, obtained by extradli- extra^lione etiam ab iffis perfeiUs 
on, even from the per fefl Metals meta'dis impetratum , mbiiiorem 
themfelves, muft needs be more ejje oportere ^ 1^ (^ut kquuntur 
noble and fic (as Alchymifts Jlchywifia') ad Philofophicam o- 
.fpeak) for the Philofophick peratiorem magi^ idoneum^ quam 
vvork,^han that which may with illum^ qui^ periria induftria 
skill and pains be at length ob' comite^ obtineri randem poteft a 
tained from common Mercury Mercurio vulgari, aparttbm fuis 
skilful'y freed from its recre- recrementittii heterogeneifq pur- 
mentitious and heterogeneous gato , (uhtilibufque & efficactbus 
parts, atid richly impregnated metallorum Miner aliumve con- 
with Y y y 2 grm- 
